Sometimes adverts are enough to make a place a landmark.
Here is the corner of High Road and Beaumont Road, Leyton, in 1956. (Image courtesy of Vestry House Museum picture archive.)
How many of these posters do you remember?
The same spot in 2019. It could almost do with some billboards.
These rustic-looking houses with an old-fashioned signpost and gas lamp are Oak Cottages, in Hale End Green, Waltham Forest, in 1910. (Image courtesy of Vestry House Museum picture archive.)
Here is the same spot today. The houses are sadly gone, but the sign post on the corner is leaning at a slightly steeper angle.
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